Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced
Friday, 22 October 2021
The shortlists for the 2021 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction A Treacherous Country (K M Kruimink, A&U) In the Time...
US$75k Cundill History Prize finalists announced
Thursday, 21 October 2021
The three finalists for the 2021 Cundill History Prize, which rewards ‘the best history writing in English’, have been announced. The finalists are: Survivors: Children’s lives after the Holocaust (Rebecca Clifford,...
Aotearoa NZ industry shocked by NZ$500k grant for book recommendation site
Thursday, 21 October 2021
The Aotearoa New Zealand literary industry is frustrated and ‘astonished’ by a NZ$500,000 (A$479,000) grant given to an organisation to improve access to books, reports Stuff.co.nz. The grant was made...
SPN 2021 program announced
Thursday, 21 October 2021
The program for the 2021 Small Press Network (SPN) annual Independent Publishing Conference has been announced. The 10th annual SPN conference will be held online from 25–27 November, with a...
Laguna wins Colin Roderick Literary Award, new paid internship recipients
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Sofie Laguna has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her novel Infinite Splendours (A&U), while the Australia Council released the long-awaited results of...
Melbourne City of Lit meets Norwich’s The Book Hive
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
In this series, run in partnership with the Melbourne City of Literature Office, we get to know some of the bookstores in the UNESCO Cities of Literature network. Today we...
Strubel wins 2021 German Book Prize
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
In Germany, Antje Rávik Strubel has won the 2021 German Book Prize for her novel Blaue Frau (S Fischer). Blaue Frau, which translates as Blue Woman in English, was chosen...
Shankari Chandran on ‘Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens’
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Shankari Chandran's third novel Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo, January) centres on the Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home and the community fostered by the Tamil family who run it. Set...
Change for International Society of Arboriculture
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Publisher: International Society of Arboriculture ISBN prefix: 9781881956; 9781943378; New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Change for Trivent Publishing
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Publisher: Trivent Publishing ISBN prefix: 97861581689; 97861581222; 97861580996 New distributor: XL Express Changeover date: 1 October 2021 Contact URL: www.eurospan.co.uk
Arts NT Varuna Fellowships announced
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The recipients of the 2021 Arts NT Varuna Residency Fellowships have been announced. Presented in partnership with the Northern Territory government, the fellowship gives six writers from the Top End...
Winner of €1m Spanish prize revealed to be three men
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
In Spain, the winner of the €1 million (A$1.57m) Planeta Prize, Carmen Mola, has been revealed as a pseudonym for three men, reports the Bookseller. Carmen Mola won the prize...
Writing NSW announces recipients of new paid publishing internships
Monday, 18 October 2021
Writing NSW has announced the successful candidates for its new internship for emerging editors from culturally diverse backgrounds. The paid internship program is presented in partnership with publishers Giramondo, Hachette,...
Liminal & Pantera Press nonfiction prize shortlist announced
Monday, 18 October 2021
The shortlist for the inaugural Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize has been announced. The shortlisted writers, chosen from a longlist announced in September, are: André Dao Brandon K Liew...
Creative Victoria latest funding recipients
Monday, 18 October 2021
Creative Victoria has announced the latest recipients of funding from its Creators Fund and Creative Workers Fund. Twenty-seven Victorian creators have shared in $995,902 of funding through the 2021 Creators...
Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 shortlist announced
Monday, 18 October 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, has been announced. The six shortlisted books are: Islands of Abandonment: Life...
Laguna wins 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award
Friday, 15 October 2021
Sofie Laguna has won the $20,000 Colin Roderick Literary Award and the H T Priestley Medal for her novel Infinite Splendours (A&U). Laguna’s coming-of-age story of a boy living in...
T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced
Friday, 15 October 2021
In the UK, the shortlist for this year’s T S Eliot Prize for Poetry, worth £25,000 (A$46,100) has been announced. The 10 shortlisted poetry collections are: Eat Or We Both...
Varuna launches pilot Western Sydney writers fellowship
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has launched a new fellowship focussing on stories and writers from Western Sydney. Western Sydney Lamplight is a fortnight-long intensive pilot program for 12 writers...
Vale Eddie Jaku
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Eddie Jaku, Holocaust survivor and author of the bestselling memoir The Happiest Man on Earth (Macmillan), has died in Sydney, aged 101. Born Abraham Jakubowicz in Germany in 1920, Jaku...
Agius to head Welbeck ANZ, NSW bookstores reopen
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Bernadette Agius has been named as the inaugural managing director of Welbeck ANZ, while Juliet Rogers has been appointed managing director of Echo Publishing. After a long lockdown, retail in...
Vale Fergus McCulla
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Peribo account manager Fergus McCulla has died, aged 31. McCulla was diagnosed with a rare and ultimately incurable form of rhabdomyosarcoma in October 2018. He passed away peacefully on 20...
The Wardrobe Makeover Challenge
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
‘Light-hearted, fun, most of all practical! This book has changed the way I think about my wardrobe’ —Becky Miles, Bachelorette and Instagram star For those familiar with the niggling feeling...
Rooney turns down translation rights offer from Israeli publisher
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Irish novelist Sally Rooney has turned down an offer to have her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber), translated into Hebrew by Israeli publisher Modan, reports the Guardian....
Scribble’s ‘I am the Subway’ wins World Illustration Award
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
I am the Subway by Kim Hyo-eun, translated by Deborah Smith and published in English by Scribble, has won the professional children’s publishing category in the 2021 World Illustration Awards....
Announcing Angela Bennetts as festival director for Words on the Waves Writers Festival
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
The board of Words on the Waves Writers Festival is thrilled to announce the appointment of Angela Bennetts as festival director for 2022. Angela brings a deep knowledge of the...
New CBD office for Penguin Random House in Melbourne
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Penguin Random House has announced the publisher’s Melbourne office will move from its current Docklands location to level 28 of 2 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank from Monday, 6 December. Julie Burland,...
Bloomsbury withdraws Haigh cookbook
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
In the UK, Bloomsbury has withdrawn a cookbook by Michelin-starred chef and former MasterChef contestant Elizabeth Haigh from circulation, reports the Bookseller. Makan: Recipes from the heart of Singapore was...
Bragg Prize for Science Writing shortlist announced
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: 'The COVID–climate collision’ by Jo Chandler (Griffith Review) ‘Everlasting free-fall’ by...
NSW retail to reopen after lockdown
Monday, 11 October 2021
After over 100 days of restrictions, New South Wales has reached its reopening target of 70% of the population being fully vaccinated with two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bookshops...
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